Mooring in Haarlem: visitor berths, fees and stops

Haarlem is an easy city to arrive in by boat, once you know its one rule: you moor only where the city's mooring plan says you may. There are 54 such places, in three kinds, and the sign at each one tells you which kind it is. Pay to stay and the bridges come with it, at no extra fee.

This guide pulls together where to tie up, what it costs and how to pay. For the bridges, speed and the rest, start with our Haarlem boating guide.

The three kinds of berth

You may only moor at places in the city's ligplaatsenplan (the mooring plan). Three kinds matter to a visiting boat, and the rules are the same for everyone, wherever you are from:

• Visitor berths: stay up to 21 days in any 3 months (article 16). There are 27 of them, almost all on the Spaarne.
• Short stops: up to 3 hours, then at least an hour away before you come back (article 22). There are 18, from the centre out to Spaarndam.
• Charging berths: electric boats only, up to 24 hours while you visibly charge, then 12 hours away before you use one again (article 19). There are 9, on the singels (the canals ringing the old town) and a few canals further out.

The limits are in the Verordening Haarlemse Wateren, the city's water by-law. One visitor berth, on the Spaarne in the Sportliedenbuurt, is kept for disabled boaters and needs a gehandicaptenparkeerkaart (a disabled parking card).

Anywhere else, keep moving. Anchoring is only allowed to prevent damage or a collision (article 34).

What it costs

The city publishes one rate for a pleasure boat on its passenger page:

• 2.30 euro per metre per day, with a minimum of 10.44 euro.
• Tourist tax of 2.50 euro per person per night on top.
• Reserving: boats over 20 metres, or groups of 10 or more, can reserve, for a fee of 0.66 euro per metre each time.

A worked example: a 7-metre boat with two aboard pays 16.10 euro for the berth and 5 euro tourist tax, about 21.10 euro a night. A boat of 4.5 metres or less pays the 10.44 euro minimum.

Paying to moor covers the bridges. If you pay for your stay, you pay no bruggengeld (bridge fee), the passenger page says. Haarlem has no visitor vignet (a boat permit, as Amsterdam uses), so you pay either for your stay or, if you only pass through, the bridge fee.

The city does not publish a fee for the 3-hour stops, so read the sign at the quay. Charging is paid by the kWh in the AanUit.net app: the city's passenger page lists 0.84 euro per kWh. The city's yearly tariff table lists lower rates for smaller connections; the AanUit.net app shows what you pay.

Fees are set every year in the city's yearly tariff table (the 2026 one was adopted on 18 December 2025), so check it before you count on a figure.

How to pay

Four ways, on the city's passenger page:

• The AanUit.net app. Pay for your berth and switch the shore power on and off in one place.
• A pay post by the havenkantoor, by the Gravestenenbrug and by the Melkbrug. PIN or credit card.
• The havenkantoor (the harbour office), Spaarndamseweg 1, Monday to Friday, 9:00 to 16:00. PIN, credit card or cash.
• The bridge keeper at the Melkbrug, during bridge hours, preferably by PIN.

The havendienst (harbour service) answers on VHF 18 or 023 511 3310.

The best stretches

For a night or a week, the Spaarne through the old town. This is where most of the visitor quay is.

• Spaarne quay, visitor berths: about 380 m of quay from the Korte Spaarne by the Gravestenenbrug to Spaarne 115, in the heart of the old town and close to a pay post.
• Houtmarkt visitor berths: about 240 m in seven stretches between Korte Dijk and the Vissersbocht.
• Kelderwindkade visitor berth: one long berth of about 180 m, just south of the railway bridge.

For lunch or a walk, the 3-hour stops.

• Spaarne 3-hour stop: about 46 m on both banks by Spaarne 29. Spaarne 66, a café-restaurant with a terrace on the water, is about 100 m on foot across the Melkbrug.
• The Scheepmakersdijk, where Restaurant Zuidam has a 3-hour stop right at the door.
• Mooie Nel 3-hour stops: two jetties on the lake north of the city, near Paviljoen Loef, which has its own jetty off the terrace.
• Taanplaats 3-hour stop, Spaarndam: about 27 m in the old village by the locks, a short walk round the harbour from Restaurant De Kolk.

For an electric boat, the charging berths. On the singels, there is a pair on the Kampervest in Heiliglanden, for boats of 7 m and 5 m. Out of town there are two on the Amerikavaart in Ellertsveld, for boats up to 10 m, and two on the Jan Gijzenvaart in Noorderhout. Mind the depth: these berths are listed at 0.6 to 0.75 m.

Open the Haarlem map to see them all, with the kind of each one.

Water, toilets and showers

• Toilets and showers for visiting boats are on the Scheepmakersdijk, by the Catharijnebrug and Molen De Adriaan: boaters' toilets and showers. They are locked. You get the PIN code when you register your stay with the havendienst.
• Drinking water at the tap by the havenkantoor, Spaarndamseweg 1.
• Water and pump-out for holding tanks at four points along the Spaarndamseweg, on the west bank of the Spaarne north of the centre. The post says how to pay.

The club harbours

If you would rather lie in a jachthaven (a marina) than on a city quay, two clubs north of the centre take visiting boats overnight:

• Haarlemsche Jachtclub, on the Mooie Nel, about 3 km by water from the havenkantoor. 2.25 euro per metre per day, power included, and you can pay by card, on the club's visitor page. Showers, toilets, waste, holding-tank and bilge pump-out, bikes and wifi come with the berth. Report at the meldsteiger (the reporting jetty), where a box holds the visitor information, by the club's FAQ. The harbour master is on 06 3371 6379, by phone or WhatsApp.
• Jachthaven Schoteroog (Jachtvereniging Watervrienden), on the Spaarne just before the Schoterbrug. 1.50 euro per metre of boat length and 2.50 euro for power per 24 hours, on the club's visitor page; it states no time unit for the berth fee. About 29 berths, by the club's Schoteroog page, with water, showers, toilets and wifi. Tie up at the buitensteiger (the outer jetty) and report at the farmhouse, where you are given a box if one is free. A call ahead is appreciated.

See every marina on the map.

A note on rules

Everything above comes from the city's passenger page, its water by-law and the mooring plan in its open data, and from the two clubs' own pages, checked in November 2026. Fees change every year: re-check haarlem.nl before you rely on a euro figure, and follow the signs on the quay, which always win over any map, ours included. Floating Today lists places as suggestions, not permits. See our Terms.